Roots: The Next Generations

1979TV-141 Season7.9/10

Could there be a worthy follow-up to the most-watched miniseries ever? "We felt the other did so well," Alex Haley said, "that we should just let it hang there." But Haley began carrying around a tape recorder, dictating more of his family's tales as they came to his memory. Those remembrances filled a 1,000-page transcript: raw material for Roots: The Next Generations. Winner of the Emmy for Best Limited Series, this landmark continuation of a landmark event - with 53 stars and 235 speaking parts - "is in many respects a superior achievement," Newsweek said in comparing this to Roots. Twenty-five years later, it has lost none of its dramatic and emotional power to make us confront history and examine ourselves. One man's family remains everyone's!

Genres:Drama

Cast:Georg Stanford Brown, Avon Long, Henry Fonda, Olivia De Havilland, Stan Shaw, Irene Cara, Dorian Harewood, James Earl Jones, Debbie Allen, Marlon Brando, Ruby Dee, Lynne Moody, Ossie Davis, Marc Singer, Ja'net DuBois, Harry Morgan, Greg Morris, Richard Thomas, Debbie Morgan, John Rubinstein, Paul Winfield, Diahann Carroll, Telma Hopkins, Rafer Johnson, Barbara Barrie, Zakes Mokae, Howard E Rollins

Production Country:United States

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Added to HBO Max:January 1, 2022